Dell helps small businesses navigate social media

Befuddled by the whole social media thing, and how it can actually help your local business?

Most small businesses are (befuddled, that is).

Anyway, Dell has created a Social Media for Small Business page on Facebook that helps - granted, it is necessary to have some clue what social media is. Check it out. There are some tips from Dell, and some tips from the community at large.

There are some spoilsports that use the page purely to advertise their businesses, but a lot of others (including Dell) that offer good tips...here's one from today:

Social Media for Small Business – Powered by Dell 27 Twitter applications to help you market your small business http://bit.ly/Gr1xW

Good job Dell! A Real Marketing application.

Dell Giving Away $10,000 Office Makeover

Dell small business is giving away office products - including a $10,000 Dell Office Makeover - so check out the tongue in cheek promotion that pokes gentle fun at those clichés everyone throws around but no one really knows what they mean — Dell’s Synergistic Mission Critical Out-of-the-Box Sweepstakes.

I've been using Dell products since, ummm, around 1995 and though customer service has grown irksome over the years, I keep buying Dells - in my mind they are great small business products. Really, these computers just seem to fit the balance of reasonably priced, good value, dependable machines.

(Now if I could just figure out why the keyboard on my current Vostro keeps getting jammed...)